The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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S^HROCKDALE reporter
AND ME8SENGER
E»uMuM 1ST*
Cwuty Kt*t HmT
ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. JULY 14, 1921
No. 29
SURPLUS WILL 118 VALUABLE GIFTS ' ROCKDALE LAYS CLAIM SUNSHINE SPECIAL FUND PLANT BUiLuS CQnSIRuuwN FUND
B WHY J549.00.00 GIVEN AWAY HAPPILY j TO BOTTLING PLANT KILLS 2 MEN TUESDAY I 108,962 AUTOMOBILES ! IS ESTABLISHED FOR
DU SEPTEMBER FIRST TO TRADE DAY CROWD AS GOOD AS THE BEST NEAR THRALL STATION DURING MONTH JUNE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING
—0— ! . i °— • —°— I —°— i —«—
u REVENUE FIND IS: SECOND MONDAY DRAWS M ELL KiK'KDALE BOT1 LING WORKS IS RUNAWAY HORSE HURLS WHITE DEMAND EXCEEDS OUTPUT AS CITY COUNCIL BUYS FEW BONDS
-Dir NEARLY So.WO.0* DESPITE BAD W FATHER FOR THOUGHT MOST MODERN l FARMER AND NEGRO UNDER I FORD MOTOR CO. BREAKS FOR W ATER WORKS FUND
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FROM YEVR AGO
Trias, July *•—
cS! of rewnue.of
- VdL 1 next, 45 **»»««•
« sept i of 5«l
it»n wa« developed today
cMtaeoce between State
Jfchn W. Baker, Comptrol-
tL Smith and members of
S*, Board of Control. It will
Mttkated to the Senate Fi-
House Appropriations
tgmomiw for their
in building the general ap-
bills for consideration
That the Second Monday Trade*
Day inaugurated by the merchants
of Rockdale under the auspice* of
the Chamber of Commerce, has be-
et me an established and well-adver-
tised fact, was evidenced on Monday,
July 11. from the targe crowd of buy-
ers and traders from outsVie the city-
limits who came into Rockdale to
participate in this monthly event.
Xothwistanding that heavy clouds
overhung the horizon, and several
showers fell before noon, the crowds
began coming in about the noon hour.
TRAIN WHEEI.S
PREVIOUS RECORDS
\ND REDEEMS OTHERS
One of Rockdale’s most valuable Taylor, Texas, July 12.—Henry ! During the month of June, the Ford j The city council in regular -revie-
industries, and about which little is Sommers, 67, pioneer fanner and Motor Company, through its Detroit! last Thursday established a "cow-
ever said, is the Rockdale Bottling wealthy land owner of Thrall com- j factories and 22 assembly plantsf struct!on fund" for Rockdale's new
Works,.owned and operated by Fred munity, and Henry Smith, a negro throughout the country reached the high school building through the
Palmer, than whom we have no bet-' tenant, were instantly killed at noon production of HKk962 Ford ears and simple expedient of redeeming twenty
ter citizen.
The Reporter man called
today, about three miles west of, trucks, setting up a new high record i of the bonds out of the sinking fund
I which has accumulated during the pi t
, I
at the Thrall, when their team of mules be- for one month.
ard soon the streets of Rockdale took
ht «mmg special session of rh* , cn quite a metropolitan air, with its
ne. Likewise, it will be jerked autos and well-dressed fami-
ly the State Automatic Tax jjes filling the business portion of
„ one of the units of eaku- j town.
a making the state tax rates j Qujte a noticeable fact was that
many farmers now come to town in
the family Ford, containing mother
plant one day recently and was shown came frightened at the approach of} Production 0f Ford cars and trucks {two years, also buy ing two of the
through >t by Mr. Palmer, who takes a railway train, and, running wild, has been steadily increasing since bonds for the city water works fund
considerable pride in the fact that threw the two men from the buggy early spring, and shows substantial out of the accumulated funds of that
h:s plant is recognised by the trade across the track, where they were ?ajns over the same period last year. | department:’
*** best bottling plant in Central struck by the east bound Sunshine The second quarter of 1921. viz., April, < This places something over $12,001
Texas, and far ahead of any -imilar Special of the 1. A G. N. Both bodies and June, shows an output of '!l the construction fund.. The bonds
piant in the state >n towns the size were horribly mangled. * 201,796 Ford cars and trucks against were voted more than two years ago,
cf Rockdale. | Sommers, a widower, is survive*! *_>2o,878 for the same three months of and the tax haring been collected for
Mr. Palmer has recently spent about by a sister, Mrs. Sophia Kaatz of near jast year, or a net iner-ase of 80,- two years means that the construction
$3,000 enlarging his building and in- Waco; a step-daughter, Mrs. Annie 91.^ ! fund is just that much larger,
stalling one of t he latest and most Aemi of Rosenberg; a nephew, John; £)espit<} lhe fact however, that the! While Rockdale has been greatly
modem distdhng pl.uits made. This Hass, of Lubbock, and four nieces, ^ giants have* been running at inconvenienced and our citizenship
"still as it is called, supplies the Mrs. Annie Ziechang of Thrall, Mrs.; maxjnmm capacity, the demand for *®niewhat perturbed over the failure
plant with 100 per cent pun? distilled Christian A. Stout of Dallas, Mrs. ^ orJ tfars anJ truc'ks ig aot ^ mot to sell the bonds and build the school
_ _ ........................^ ..........Every bottle of soda water E. F. Wolhrueg of Taylor, and Mrs. MlJ gt ^ ‘ent time, many thous- V*4 after all the delay will
vkich has been worrying he children as well as father. Little 1 lurntfd oul is made of purv‘ dsti,led Bertha Mundosky of Thrall. 1 *nd unfilled orders have be^n niled P™* fortunate for the city.
« du$ difference of nearly $0,
znd causing him to con-
business men and others
a ifh'rt
groups of neighbors could be
gathered together on the streets, dis-
to lino some sources of cussjnp. ^e neighborhood news, as
>4 tjgt about for new sources
to be imposed by the spec-
t© meet the situation and
,*L MORTGAGES
PROPERTY IN
TEXAS
to make up the deficiency ^ gs otkcr topics of interest.
i, *. »»p* G»"^J u a,. th,.
Secretary, who was attending the
j meeting of Commercial Secretaries
. K i j :n Austin. Ben Loewenstein Jr., chair-
the state on a cash basis. } \ _ . n ...
, . - 1 man of the Trades Day committee,
it 15 . ch«ryy of th.' distribution of jr-fts.
fir accepted that pruning will j Following is a list of those who ro-
tifer of things and that many ! wived the many and valuable gifts
will be trimmed and; donated by the Rockdale merchants
»few eliminated. I «nd business men:
- j Mrs. J. F. Pickens, Rockdale, outc
!. received the bed springs and mat-
tress, donated by the First Nation
Bank, Citizens State Bank s r.d Rock-
dale State Bank.
Steve Corbett, Route 5, was given
the 50 yards of 8-ounce duck contrib-
uted by W. E. White and Ben Loew-
enstein Jr.
J. H. Carroi. Route 4—45.00 in mcr
chandise offered by Scarbrough
Hicks Company.
Ottie Alford, Route 4. received the
set of Ford spark plugs offered by-
Rockdale Motor Car Company.
Arthur Gill, of Tanglewood, re-
ceived the $2.00 in merchandise given
b ythe Toy Meat Market.
A. R. Averin, Tanglewood. Route
1, received the ten gallons of gaso-
line donated by C. C. Bethea.
J. L. Talbot. Rockdale. Route 5. re-
ceived the $2.00 ice coupon book given
by the Rockdale Ice Factory.
O. F. Robinett. Rockdale. Route
received the $2.00 in merchandise of-
water. Furthermore, the sanitary Strangely co-incident with the death
conditions prevailing are the very 0f Sommers is the fact that his older
best, among the late installations be- brother, John Sommers, was struck
ing a modern bottle waching machine by a Katy train and killed in a lik**
which absolutely cleanses the bottles manner in the railway yards here
and then rinses them with fresh, about twenty years ago.
clean water. -
and at the present time, many thous-
and unfilled orders have been piled
ahead so that Ford sales are still Building materials have been greatly
limited by manufacturing facilities tvduced in price, labor is much cheap-
ruther than marketing possibilities. , ,>r* a,'3 * niuch better building may
l*artieularly is this true with respect now ^ Yor the money than would
to enclosed cars, for which the de- • bav* been the case had the bonds
j ntand has been unusually heavy. j tK‘vn s0*d 4wo yvars ago.
One reason cited by the Ford offi- The city council and school board
1 cials for the unprecedented demand i :,rv no4 an^ efforts for the sale
ENDS LIFE AT SHINER for Ford ears is the present tendency !' * are constantly being
— ( toward economy. Many of those , nmdo» and we ar* informed on good
whose names have been adiievi to the authority that there is a deal pending
list of buyers might well have vven now that may result in an ad-
Texzs, July 7.—The Texas
$ Light; Company has mort-
1 property in eighty-six Texas
t# 4* Central Union Trust com -
rf\>* York for $l,650jD00, ac-
ts the declaration filed here
vitk the coonty clerk. The
included title to transmis-
hw, power plants and right of
if * cumber of interurban lines
the cities affected are Waco,
Cleburne, Hillsboro, Temple,
Gainsville, Brownwood,
Pnris, Palestine. Tyler, Cor-
Dmison, Belton and Ennis,
cities listed are: Allen, Al-
Bondwell, Bartlett, Bells.
Blanket, Boyce. Brandon,
Brucerille, Caddo Mills.
Commerce, Corsicana,
Dmusor, IVxld City. Dublin,
Fonl, Eddy, Ennis, Farris, ,
Ftost. G« and, Gramlv.cu, ftlvd b> :ho SaluUi> Moat M:*rkl
• Harper. Heidenheimer, J* «. Scales, of Uxington, Route
Honev Grove. Howe I 4» wceiwd the one dozen fruit jars
Irene. Italy. Itasca. Jose- ^foml b>" ^ VHm>t-v Ston;
K»ufman. Ladonia. Lorir.a. E,hs* of Hicks, recei
McGregor. McKinney, Mes- ?'->00 in nierchandise offered by th-'
Midlothian, Milforvl, Moody. I ° K Meat Markt‘l-
7. Nevada. Norwood, Palmer, I Y A **
^ Oak. Rice. Richardson tho ^ift offond bv tho ?ty
Rockwall, Rogers, Row- j *nK Far lor, two suits cleans! and
City. Roxton, Stephens-1 pt''SSvd-
Sterrett. Tavlor. Thomdale I Emerson Rutherford, of
West, Wilmer. Windom.i *ivm> bv ^
The floors are of concrete, and the FORMER THORN DALE MAN
c eanliness of the place is really re-
markable. Mr. Palmer is turning out _
a product of which the town of Rock- (Thomdale Champion)
dele may well be proud. j j)r p Rarnsel a prominent phy- long
As for 1* red Palmer himself he is a sjoian and surgeon of Shiner, Texas, afforded larger and more costly cars vantageous disposal soon,
citizen to be proud of. Twenty years ^nded his life July 2, 1921, with a 32- than the Ford, but it is the belief that
ago he lost both his legs. He is there- caijber pistol, having first taken a most prospective motor csr buyers arc
fore a hopeless cripple for life, but he fioso 0f poison—no reasons being giv- investigating all of the costs incident
lacks a whole lot of being a help- 0n for the deed. ; to motoring much more carefully
ie>s cripple. On the contrary he is jjr Ranisel was raised in Washing- than at any period during the past
more active than the average busi- ton ^unty. Texas, and moved w th five years.
ness man. He not only superintends his t(J Rockdale in 1899, and The estimated output of the Fonl
his own business, but he "makes * aft«»r living there two years came to factories for July calls for 109,000
hand" at it, and through his own xfionijaie where he built up a big cars and trucks, or a production of
OLD TIME FRIENDS
MEET IN TAFT. TEXAS
energy and ability he has built up a practice in partnership with Dr. L. L.
splendid business with a modern, -
a
thoroughly equipped plant, askinc
no favors of anybody except as a
strict business proposition. His plant
i? worth a great deal to Rockdale, for
it brings in new money every day,;
besides supplying the local trade with
a pure and necessary product.
Fred will be glad to have you call
and see his plant at any time, and
you will be w-ell repaid for tfce time
r 1* nt in making him a neighborly
visit.
The Reporter from now until Jan.
1, 1922, for only 5tV in Milam and ad-
joining counties, or 75c to points more
distant. tf
_Reporter ads get the grapes._
4,369 a day for 25 days. Since the
assembling of cars is being handled
during an eight hour work day only,
the hourly output will be 545 cars.
In other words, one Ford car frr
truck leaves the assembly line every
i 6 1-2 seconds.
Lee. He belonged to the Sons of
Herman and at one time the K. of F.
Lodge. He left Thomdale eight years
ago and a year or two later estab-
lished a sanitarium at Shiner, Texas.
He would have been 50 years of age
the 8th of the coming October.
Dr. Ramsel leaves a widow—Mrs. [ --
Frances Ramsel and two daughters, ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
Misses Zalma and Cornelia, of Thom- ♦ ♦
dale, and one daughter, Miss Pansy ♦ NEWS FROM SHARP *
Ramsel, at Yoakum—the former two . + ♦
attended the funeral which took place + fe + ♦ ♦ ♦
Sunday at Giddings, Texas.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦
The following interesting item with
reference to a Rockdale citizen has
been clipped from the paper publishes!
at Taft, Texas:
Tom Phillips of Milam county, Tex-
as, is visiting his son. Rush Phillips,
of 145 Center street. Since coming
to Taft, Mr. Phillips has met a friend
of younger days in the person of
Mrs. N. A. Robertson of Naylor
Avenue.
It has been mom than fifty years
since these friends of the long ago
met, and some time was spent in
bringing to mind the past. They
were friends before either of them
married.
Me* Phillips celebrated his 79th
birthday anniversary Sunday. June
26th. at a dinner given in his honor
by Mrs. H. E. Gambil on North
street. He owns land in Milam county
received the
Route.
CrtT »nd Wylie
TU ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
A short time I will begin
* ,J*e Ux roil for 1921 If
!*t zny part of the county
ov*rlooked or missed by the
^” v<or '« your beat, or for
J5 you ha\e not rendered vour
‘ • -ixation for this year.
*u> at once giving list of
ted *nW,% °r COme in t0 41,0
*•'<* me your assessment.
• -esirous of getting every
*nd take this meth -
__(Mrs. W. H. Lyon)
Read The Reporter special bargain j July 11.—The baseball club took
subscription offer on page 1. ti two days road trip to Somerville, Texas, and says them is no place like
__j where the club %f that city was the Lone Star State for him.
played Wednesday and Thursday. The ‘ Mrs. Robertson was Nancy Tuck-
tirst game was fairly fast but there or before she married and her girl-
was evidence that the Sharp butuh hood and early married life was spent
fielded the ball better and also hit jn Milam county. She has lived in
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LEILA WOOLLEY,
U A**s»°ri Milam Co., Tex.
DBNTAL NOTICE
**** owing me on account
a°d settle same, as I
nP my business to leave
k*pee!fully>
QtL ED A. SWAFFORD,
_ Dentist.
•M*4 the trip hammer
M plow tools right.
Car Co. tf
Surprise Store.
Gust Gonton, of near Rockdale, re-
ceived the 25 bread tickets offerer! by-
Stein’s Bakery.
T. M. Guthrie, Route l, received the
four meal tickets offered by the
Olympia Cafe.
Fred Brannon, of Milano, received
the 15 tickets to Maxie’s Picture Show.
Gus Loehr, Route 1, received tho
gift offered by Louis Zimmer, a
hair-cut, shave, shampoo and shine.
R. H. Rettig, of Route 3. received t
similar gift offerer! by Catching*
Brothers.
Alfred Bissell, of Tanglewood. re-
ceived the four meal tickets offered
by the Scheihing Cafe.
In aP 18 prizes were given away,
and the large crowd present at the
Chamber of Commerce during the dis.
•ribution of the gifu, appeared to be
;n a most happy frame of mind, and
it cannot be doubted that they will
tell their friends and neighbors, which
will induce many others to come to ] >
Rockdale for the next Trades Day.
which will b* the second Monday in ♦
August.
Subscription Bargain ! !
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The Reporter from Now to
Jan. 1, 1922, for Only
Califonia for the past eight years an,I
has been in Taft for the past four
years.
50c
harrier than the Railroaders. Red
Hudspeth worked for Sharp and the
hits obtained from his offerings weix
few and far between. The game end- 1________-
ed with the score 5 to 2 with Sharp also five runs. Rogers was un
on the big end. The second game was ; ;|bK> tQ hack in her half so tht
not so good and then* were some er- j RanMJ endwJ t0 l in favor of Sharp.
ror« recorded on both teams. Sharp j A ^ many fans of this commun-
started their damage in the first j jty %yerv ^^tting the fact that there
frame, scoring three runs, and there J not to ho a ball game on tho
after whenever they wanted to. Bag by | looa) )ot Sunday, but were itelighteo
was on the mound for Sharp and , ^ h»arn that it rained in Thomdale
pitch^nl nice ball. Marlin of FrMville, j so that it made play impossible in
worked for Somerville. He is s .id to . (bat c-ty 5^ th0 Thomdale team and
♦ have pitched sixteen games this sea- the a|^KIVKation from Elgin who
4 son and won thirteen of them. He , scheduled to play in Thorndalo
probably was not feeling well Thurs j oanu, out to our park. It turned ou*
day because the Sharp aggregation
knocked him out in the fourth inning.
(7o Distant Points. Only 75c)
T ’ The game ended 9 to 3 in our favor.
♦ The club reached home from Som-
t ervilie about two a. m. Friday niom
to be a (Splendid game from every
viewpoint. Both hurlers, Clemens of
Thomdale, and McCall of Elgin, did
splendid work. McCail came near
winning his own game when he
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felt like meeting j cjou(eij ont, over the fence. The game
the fast Rogers team that very af-1_____11..j ,w.. —.1 1K.1 ninth Vw*-
ing. Thev hardly
T , was called at the end of the ninth be
♦' ternoon and really needed a good 1 caust, appmaching darkness.
X rest The game was destineil to be Jho stood 3 to 3>
♦lone of interest because the two clubs rV|T|f anj Claud Leonartl. Jim
♦ , had never met before. The game
T tKkl fttgft
was
T interesting from the start. Russ
♦ I Hsgler was of course in the box for
♦ i Rogers. Re«l Hudipeth worked for
^ Sharp, and he had had only one day s
♦ rest from the box. Rogers drew first
♦ blood by scoring one in the third
£ frame. The game stood this way un-
X til the eighth when Sharp tied the
j 1 score. No one scored in the ninth sc
the game when on into extra innings.
It was clearly a pitching duel be-
tween Hagler and Hudspeth. In tho
lucky thirteenth the Sharp bunch
batted a whole round. This frame
ruined the good game. Five consecu-
tive hits were eoltcted from Hagler,
Bird and family, accompanied tht*
club to Somerville.
Letters from Rupert Hargrove and
Clifford Raby state that they are
now working in the grain field in
Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ai J. Garner, Mrs.
Pat Garner and bahy. are on an ex-
tended visit to Miles, Texas.
Will Davis. Dorothy, and Nelson,
motored to Dale, Texas, where they
visited relatives for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Berry Davis and chil-
dren, of Dallas, are visitors in the
Dan G. Davis home this week.
Reporter ads get the frapaa.
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